KBR, Inc. (KBR) has been awarded a license and engineering and a proprietary equipment supply contract by China Pingmei Shenma Group (PMSM) to build two new polycarbonate plants in Kaifeng and Pingdingshan in the Henan Province in China.
Under the terms of the contracts, both 100,000 metric tonnes per annum plants will utilize KBR’s proprietary phosgene-based interfacial polycarbonate technology PCMAXTM. As part of its overall polycarbonate strategy, PMSM intends to expand its total production capacity to 800,000 metric tonnes per annum.
KBR’s PCMAXTM technology produces a wide range of high quality polycarbonate product grades with minimal capital investment.
KBR globally licenses and designs polycarbonate synthesis and compounding plants as well as complementary phenolic technologies, including phenol/acetone, and bisphenol-A (BPA).
